reminder that the characters in your story making stupid/bad decisions, being dishonest with themselves and the reader, and not knowing what's actually going on is not a "plot hole" it is how 99% of people operate in real life
@sun just thinking about how if you're reading something that is total schlock bullshit in the first place (like Dune) the "narrative" making "sense" is the only possible redeeming factor and it still falls short of that so often in genre fiction
@hourmutt @sun the prose is drier than particle board. I've read KIA owners manuals with more flair and aptitude for language. it's the kind of book that people read in 7th grade and, having not read a book since, remember being "totally epic"
@hourmutt @sun if you have the kind of autism that makes you obsessed with surface-level interesting world building that is actually just being totally made up by someone who makes terry davis look well adjusted you can just read the wikipedia article for western europe post 1700
@hourmutt @sun one of the things with his writing (and lots of SF in general) is the fact you can kinda tell a lot of old school male SF authots have never spoken to a woman that didn't birth them, and there's nothing wrong with that necessarily, but it's very silly
@hourmutt @sun Araki goes out of his way to not write women because he doesn't get them and honestly it does JoJo a lot of favors. I want to see huge men punch each other (or in Dunes case, huge men backstab each other
@snacks @hourmutt @sun and it took him 6 parts to do that. the women up until stone ocean except for Lisa Lisa are RIDICULOUS, and even then, Lisa Lisa reads to me as "i wish this was my mom
@moth_ball @hourmutt @sun @zonk "I hate white women" has just become culturally acceptable shorthand for "I hate all women" and Quite Frankly it is racist
@hourmutt i hate culturally american white women. you're cool + really good cooking + it's actually delicious + anyone who hasn't tried is missing out + w + i asked
@hourmutt It isn't even good at "what-if"s. Humanity decides to throw away all computers because they suposedly rose up and then reverted to #feudalism for no reason. And then there is totaly-not-magical drugs that give you totaly-not-magical powers. There is about as much science in #Dune as there is #punk in #steampunk. @vriska @sun
I almost feel called out here. But this being how most people operate means it makes more sense for a character to be like this. It's also interesting to think about what makes some people tick and others don't tick when it comes to making stupid/bad decisions. And why does this happen more to groups of lads and risky behaviour?
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Especially not when the characters are the point
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Unknown parent • • •It isn't even good at "what-if"s. Humanity decides to throw away all computers because they suposedly rose up and then reverted to #feudalism for no reason. And then there is totaly-not-magical drugs that give you totaly-not-magical powers. There is about as much science in #Dune as there is #punk in #steampunk.
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